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會寫。After trying hard, I got a job in a gold ,我才在一家金礦找到一份工作。However, this was a time when one had got to have a passbook to live in ,你要想住在約翰內(nèi)斯堡就非得要有身份證不可。Sadly I did not have it because I was not born there, and I worried about whether I would bee out of ,因?yàn)槲也皇窃谀抢锍錾模液軗?dān)心我是不是會失業(yè)。The day when Nelson Mandela helped me was one of my 曼德拉給予我?guī)椭哪且惶焓俏乙簧凶罡吲d的日子。He told me how to get the correct papers so I could stay in ,應(yīng)當(dāng)如何獲取所需證件。I became more hopeful about my 。I never forgot how kind Mandela ,When he organized the ANC Youth League, I joined it as soon as I ,我馬上就參加了這個組織。He said:“The last thirty years have seen the greatest number of laws stopping our rights and progress, until today we have reached a stage where we have almost no rights at all.”他說:“過去30年來所出現(xiàn)的大量法律剝奪我們的權(quán)利,阻擋我們的進(jìn)步,一直到今天,我們還處在幾乎什么權(quán)利都沒有的階段?!盜t was the 。Black people could not vote or choose their ,他們無權(quán)選擇他們的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人。They could not get the jobs they wanted. 他們不能做自己想要做的工作。The parts of town in which they had to live were decided by white people. 他們所能住的城區(qū)都是由白人決定的。 The places outside the towns where they were sent to live were the poorest parts of South 。No one could grow food ,沒有人能夠種莊稼。In fact as Nelson Mandela said:事實(shí)上,就像拉爾遜曼德拉所說的:“…we were put into a position in which we had either to accept we were less important or fight the government. “……我們被置于這樣一個境地:要么我們被迫接受低人一等的現(xiàn)實(shí),要么跟政府作斗爭。We chose to attack the 。We first broke the law in a way which was peaceful。 when this was not allowed首先我們用和平的方式來破壞法律,而當(dāng)這種方式也得不到允許時,…only then did we decide to answer violence with violence.……只有到這個時候,我們才決定用暴力反抗暴力?!盇s a matter of fact, I do not like violence…but in 1963 I helped him blow up some government ,我并不喜歡暴力,……但是在1963年的時候,我?guī)椭Я艘恍┱髽?。It was very dangerous because if I was caught I could be put in ,因?yàn)槿绻冶蛔プ×?,可能就會被關(guān)進(jìn)監(jiān)獄。But I was happy to help because I knew it would help us achieve our dream of making black and white people ,我樂于幫忙,因?yàn)槲抑?,這是為了實(shí)現(xiàn)我們的黑人和白人平等的夢想。必修一Unit 5 THE REST OF ELIAS39。 STORY伊萊亞斯的故事續(xù)篇You cannot imagine how the name of Robben Island made us 。It was a prison from which no one 。There I spent the hardest time of my 。But when I got there Nelsom Mandela was also there and he helped ,納爾遜曼德拉也在那兒,他又幫助了我。Mr. Mandela began a school for those of us who had little 。He taught us during the lunch breaks and the evenings when we should have been 。We read books under our blankets and used anything we could find to make candles to see the ,我們用可以找到的任何東西作蠟燭來看書。I became a good student. I wanted to study for my degree but I was not allowed to do ,想要為我的學(xué)位而學(xué)習(xí),但是別人不允許我這樣做。Later, Mr. Mandela allowed the prison guards to join ,曼德拉先生讓獄卒參加我們一起學(xué)習(xí)。He said they should not be stopped from studying for their 。They were not cleverer than me , but they did pass their ,卻通過了考試,So I knew I could get a degree 。That made me feel good about 。When I finished the four years in prison, I went to find a ,我去找工作。Since I was better educated, I got a job working in an ,我得到了一份做辦公室的工作。However, the police found out and told my boss that I had been in prison for blowing up government buildings. So I lost my ,告訴了我的老板,說我因?yàn)檎ㄕ髽嵌^牢。于是我失業(yè)了。I did not work again for twenty years until M r Mandela and the ANC came to power in ,我有20年沒有工作。All that time my wife and children had to beg for food and help from relatives or ,我的妻兒只得從親戚朋友處討飯吃,并乞求幫助。Luckily Mr. Mandela remembered me and gave me a job taking tourists around my old prison on Robben ,給了我一份工作,叫我?guī)е眯袌F(tuán)去參觀羅本島上我住過的那座就監(jiān)獄。I felt bad the first time I talked to a ,我的心情很不好。All the terror and fear of that time came back to 。I remembered the beatings and the cruelty of the guards and my friends who had ,我想到了我那些死去的朋友,I felt I would not be able to do it, but my family encouraged (導(dǎo)游的)工作。但是我的家人卻鼓勵我,They said that the job and the pay from the new South African government were my reward after working all my life for equal rights for the ,從南非新政府得到的這份工作和薪餉,是我畢生為爭取黑人的平等權(quán)利而斗爭所得到的回報。So now I am proud to show visitors over the prison, for I helped to make our people free in their own ,我還能給參觀者介紹有關(guān)監(jiān)獄的情況,對此我感到非常驕傲,因?yàn)槲以?jīng)為黑人在自己的國土上爭取自由而出過力。1. 若不給自己設(shè)限,則人生中就沒有限制你發(fā)揮的藩籬。2. 若不是心寬似海,哪有人生風(fēng)平浪靜。在紛雜的塵世里,為自己留下一片純靜的心靈空間,不管是潮起潮落,也不管是陰晴圓缺,你都可以免去浮躁,義無反顧,勇往直前,輕松自如地走好人生路上的每一步3. 花一些時間,總會看清一些事。用一些事情,總會看清一些人。有時候覺得自己像個神經(jīng)病。既糾結(jié)了自己,又打擾了別人。努力過后,才知道許多事情,堅(jiān)持堅(jiān)持,就過來了。4. 歲月是無情的,假如你丟給它的是一片空白,它還給你的也是一片空白。歲月是有情的,假如你奉獻(xiàn)給她的是一些色彩,它奉獻(xiàn)給你的也是一些色彩。你必須努力,當(dāng)有一天驀然回首時,你的回憶里才會多一些色彩斑斕,少一些蒼白無力。只有你自己才能把歲月描畫成一幅難以忘懷的人生畫卷。10.學(xué)習(xí)